What does
SET enable_seqscan = false;
EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM ...
get you? Is it faster?
BTW, I suspect this behavior is because the estimates for the cost of an
index scan don't give an appropriate weight to the correlation of the
index. The 'sort and index' thread on this list from a few months ago
has more info.
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